Did you have to upgrade your home network when you started WFH or any other at home office expenses like that? I ended up buying a ton of equipment and getting a standing desk etc. Don't think I'm going to be reimbursed, and I don't think that's fair as things like internet were critical to job function. Anyone else?

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My company started providing $50/month to upgrade our internet and $300 once to upgrade our office equipment. I'm at a SF Bay Area startup

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Similar for me. $250/one time payment last year and then we also get $50/mont miscellaneous for tech or gym, etc.

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Holding two offers:

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Analytics Quotient (KAP) - Consultant - 13 fixed - Bangalore

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from Tier 2 MBA background

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Hey FishBowl Friends, so I’m currently trying to break into tech sales/FinTech and I feel that due to my previous work history, I might not look like the ideal candidate on paper but I’m an extremely fast learner and very coachable. I’ve been a manger at a gym, got my degree in finance, worked as a client advisor at a top 3 auto dealer in the nation and now I’m a project manager at a solar company. I really want something that’s remote and steady, any recommendations on how to spruce myself up?

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Any Benefits Analysts out there willing to share salaries? I am a remote employee but also looking in the Atlanta area. About 7 yoe and wondering if I’m cheating myself to ask for max $80k.

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Does Honeywell allow work from home?
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Does Genpact provide permanent work from home?

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I want to dispose my office chair and i live in Newton. Anyone knows if i can leave it curbside or where i can check for the details?

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“We are fully remote”

Me : Awesome so no travel required at all?

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Me: So not remote at all…?

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Boomers and Gen X HR teams are FUNNY.

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Do you have a home office? Do you use an external monitor? Did you expense the docking station?

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Wow. I finally got a standing desk and it is LIFE changing 🫶

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Is anyone’s company offering to pay portion of your rent as home office expense? Especially if company is no longer paying for commercial office space?

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Are salesforce (Bangalore) employees working from home or hybrid?
If still WFH (all days)? How many months will it extend?
If hybrid has started, how many day per week is mandatory?

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Looking for a home office chair…I need something really ergonomic/comfortable but given the visibility of the office in the house the wife wants something stylish. She keeps calling all my ideas ‘gamer chairs’ even though they’re definitely not. Anyone have any chairs they really like that may be worth looking at? I feel like I’ve looked everywhere (Steelcase, Herman Miller, humanscale, Haworth, xchair, etc).

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I’m so tired of US companies hiring remote Canadian employees offering to pay a fraction of the price for the same role.

This is consistent across the majority of the tech companies. While I am looking to exit consulting, don’t want to be paid 50% of what my colleagues would be making across the border.

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Looking for referrals for a Technical Sales Executive position that is Remote (USA), possibly in the industrial sector. Last year I made $109k at AT&T so I'm hoping to at least stay in the same ball park but want a change. I have lots of experience selling IT/telecom, but I also have a Mechanical Engineering background so I'm a good fit for a wide range of technical sales. I have been thinking a role in the industrial sector with a longer sales cycle may be a good fit, can travel up to 25%

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Got to know that the current hybrid work policy (3 day wfo and 2 day wfh) is valid till december only, post which everyone is suppose to work from office.. is it true?

Joining a big firm next week as fully remote lateral and flying out to home office for orientation. The schedule has me in office until 4:15. I’ve already been told I won’t have any actual work. Depending on how many people are there and how it feels, I was planning to stay an hour extra but should I hang around the office until later? First time visiting this city so it’d be great to take in some sights too (although that’s not a priority of course).

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Anyone hiring fully remote AEs?
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Hello friends, I am looking for job. I have more than 9 yrs of experience in application support role. I can join immediately.

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I honestly struggle with the politics of Afghanistan. It does appear that after 20 years we leave and within months it goes back to very similar or on its way. It’s not the US job to be the world police we did try to build coalitions and fail at the end of the day unless we’re willing to keep troops there forever which most Americans don’t want to I am not sure what the right thing to do is. And I’m sick of criticism just for the sake of the president. I don’t think there’s a perfect solution

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Hi,
I just want to understand how the recruitment works here in Canada. I applied for quite few openings but nothing is clicked so far, even Though my profile matches quite all criteria. How much a referral can work here, I tried to reach people in LinkedIn but most of the times I won’t get an answer for my ping. I literally feel annoyed and distressed. Can you please pour your ideas how we can actually search for a recruiter in LinkedIn and how to approach and how to atleast get single intervie

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Serious question… if I am interested in becoming a CTO/CDO one day, what should I do for the next 5-8 years to prepare for this? Are there specific roles in tech that prepares you for a CTO role? I am currently in sales engineering with over a decade in consulting experience.

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I’m a Junior product manager with a Master’s in Healthcare Management. I feel like the current company that I am at has my title as JPM, but I am doing PM work i.e creating product roadmaps, collaborating across stakeholders (business, marketing, design teams), creating user stories/features, etc. and I feel like my work isn’t being valued and I’m constantly being micromanaged by business teams expectations.

How feasible is it for me to apply to a PM role with less than a year of experience?

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Once you get into a FAANG company, is it better to stay where you are or move around? I’m a dissatisfied with my current job but I have vesting stocks, work 9-5, and people to know and respect me. I am the sole provider for my family and value quality of life and stability. I have some interview requests from other FAANG companies that I know pay more but I worry about starting over. Anyone switch companies and either regret it or are glad they did?

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Tech companies who have gone remote since the pandemic: do you get a stipend for home internet or a mobile hot spot for when your home internet goes out? Some of my employees are having issues that directly impact their ability to join customer calls, but my company’s IT department doesn’t offer any support. Wondering if that’s still the norm.

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My company is changing policies for remote work from international to national only. Do I have any leverage? I'm finding it really hard to get concrete info on what would make a company do so and if I can come up with any sort of rationale to have them let me stay international. Any thoughts appreciated

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